Efficiency of certain biopesticides against the olive black scale insect,Saissetia oleae (Olivier) on olive trees at Giza Governorate, Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

2 Scale insects and Mealy bugs Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of some biopesticides for
controlling the olive black scale insect, Saissetia oleae (Olivier) on olive trees at Giza
Governorate, Egypt during April, 2010. Four biopesticides (Biover, Stanes-biocatch,
Stanes-biomagic and Bioranza) and one plant extract (Nimbecidine) were tested.
The obtained results showed that all tested biopesticides and one extract were
able to decrease the infestation with the olive black scale insect on olive trees through
the three post treatment counts. Data clearly showed no significant differences among
their efficiency (over 85%) and Nembicidine gave 80%.

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